Tag: Lovely lovely data
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Wake Up Mario! It’s the 100 Most-Broadcast BBC Programmes Of All Time (20 and 19)
Here we go. Top twenty. Big leagues. Every programme from this point on an absolute titan of British broadcasting. Starting with… 20: Working Lunch (Shown 3296 times, 1994-2010) I’m willing to admit, this is a bit of a surprise. For a programme that would go on to become the 20th most-broadcast programme in the BBC’s…
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BABY BAB-AI! It’s the 100 Most-Broadcast BBC Programmes Of All Time (22 and 21)
So close we can taste that top twenty. 22: Eggheads (Shown 3049 times, 2003-2021) Hang on, what’s a Channel 5 programme doing on here? Admittedly, I really don’t know much about the series. Never watched it, and one time some work colleagues were thinking of taking part, and one suggested to me that they’d like…
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The 100 Most-Broadcast BBC Programmes Of All Time (24 and 23)
I’m back from holiday. With exhaustion and a cold, which feels unfair. Anyway, back to the chart rundown that’s dragging on so long you’ve lost interest. 24: Teletubbies (Shown 2977 times, 1997-2009) Eh? Oh. It’s funny how, once a product of a genre becomes truly massive, most people completely forget what had previously seemed to…
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The 100 Most-Broadcast BBC Programmes Of All Time (28 and 27)
Yes, it took a long time to arrive at this next update. You can blame the ‘programme’ at number 27 on the list. Anyway, on with the next couple of entries on the list, which would have undoubtedly appeared much sooner if I’d refused to do commentary on them. 28: CountryFile (Shown 2798 times, 1988-2021)…
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The 100 Most-Broadcast BBC Programmes Of All Time (30 and 29)
Into the Top Thirty we go, and a real treat in store for anyone hoping to see a picture of Ken Burras examining a Luffa. Kicking off with a programme promising to make the most out of new-fangled colour television. 30: Gardeners’ World (Shown 2736 times, 1968-2021) Borne out of Percy Thrower’s Gardening Club (526…
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The 100 Most-Broadcast BBC Programmes Of All Time (32 and 31)
Ooh, almost within the Top Thirty. And this time around, it includes two examples of Peak Beeb, so that’s nice. Here goes: 32: Pointless (Shown 2656 times, 2009-2021) Yes! For the first time in ages, a programme I won’t need to do a lot of research on because I’ve probably watched most of the episodes.…
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The 100 Most-Broadcast BBC Programmes Of All Time (34 and 33)
Here comes the next bit. Look out, Britain. 34: Tonight (Shown 2582 times, 1957-1992) Heeeeeeeeere’s, um, Cliff Michelmore! Yeah, so nothing to do with The Tonight Show, but rather billed (repeatedly) in the Radio Times as “a topical programme for all the family”, the initial incarnation of Tonight arrived on the screens of teatime Britain…
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BBC100: The 100 Most-Broadcast BBC Programmes Of All Time (36&35)
After a sport and an incredibly popular kids TV programme last time, how about something different? This time we’ve got… oh. 36: Golf (Shown 2487 times, 1938-2021) The first piece of actual golf-related TV programming that I can find came in March 1937, with Golfers in Action. A mid-point between a demonstration and an interview,…
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The 100 Most-Broadcast BBC Programmes Of All Time (40-39, plus 100-41 again, especially 42)
When you draw a line in the sand, it’s too bloody tempting to kick that line away and draw a new one. In short: I simply don’t know when to just leave things alone. What happened is, when writing the entry for a programme that appeared to have set for number 36 on the list,…
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The Mega-Meldrew Point (Updated 9 Jan)
Happy New Year! Now, who wants to feel old? You may have heard of a Twitter account called Meldrew Point. If you haven’t, the account’s bio sums it up nice and succinctly: “to reach Meldrew Point, you must be 19,537 days old: the same age as Richard Wilson when episode 1 of One Foot In…
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